One unique aspect of a professional course at the Chippendale school is that it also teaches the basics of business planning and marketing. Because there’s little point in being the best furniture designer in the world if you can’t market yourself. It’s a holistic approach designed to give our students the best start to their …
It’s the end of term for our professional course students. We’ll shortly announce who our prize-winning students were. The class of 2018/19 made some exceptional furniture, and we’ll look again at some of the very best pieces over the summer. We’re also pleased that a number of our graduates are staying on in incubation space …
We’re always delighted to post news about former students’ work, particularly when they have a lesson to pass on. So, we’re pleased to feature Shane Elliot’s Prohibition Table which has been recrafted specifically for the Middle Eastern market. His quirky poker table is “furniture in motion” and based on an original design used during the …
As an international furniture design and making school, our students come from far and wide. This year on our professional course we had students from the USA, Canada, Iceland, UK, Ireland, Australia, Poland and Germany. On our one-month intermediate course we’ve had students from as far away as Trinidad and Tobago and Brazil. More usually, …
Giuseppe Merlino from the north of Italy is a graduating student whose pieces contain so much design inspiration. First it was a Bauhaus-inspired writing desk, containing much design elegance. It perfectly combines form and function in a table that is both simple, complex and architectural. Giuseppe, from near Milan, was previously a post-doctoral researcher in …
Tom Smyth’s stand-out piece during his year with us was a monumental garden seat. His inspiration for the seat came from work he carried out on the roof of a listed 400-year-old timber framed barn in Hampshire. The link between a roofing project and a garden seat may not seem obvious, but you have to …
